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PC runs isaac sim now, yayy, but getting there was a journey! Hit driver version conflicts, black screens, and a scary motherboard lockup. Hardware setup isn't complete until you've spent hours debugging a problem that shouldn't exist :D High level recap of the issues I hit đŸ§”
Meet my new beast - my first PC! 😁 Ryzen 9900X RTX 5080 âšĄïž Super excited to dive into ROS, Isaac Sim, and build some coool robots! đŸ€–
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All in all, it was a good learning experience, and this is just the beginning of many more fun things to come! @nvidia @NVIDIARobotics
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Meet my new beast - my first PC! 😁 Ryzen 9900X RTX 5080 âšĄïž Super excited to dive into ROS, Isaac Sim, and build some coool robots! đŸ€–
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JIO MAJOR DATA BREACH! You just installed an un-wiped, used JioFiber STB in my mother's home that still has a stranger's full profile and active OTT accounts logged in. Exposing customer data like this is an absolute security disaster. (1/3) @jiocare @reliancejio @TRAI
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The previous owner's Netflix, YouTube and Hotstar are wide open. Are your technicians bypassing warehouse QA and just swapping un-wiped hardware between homes to cut corners? Handing out someone else's digital life to new customers is gross negligence. (2/3)
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I refuse to accept this compromised, recycled equipment. Send a technician to my Bengaluru residence IMMEDIATELY with a BRAND NEW, factory-sealed STB. Fix this account mapping instantly or I will escalate this privacy violation to the consumer forum. (3/3)
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Last summer, I craved Indian mangoes so much in Boston that I paid $10 for one mango. Totally worth it!! Thankfully, I’m in Bangalore now, and I can have as many mangoes as I want xD
You can get a good banana anywhere in the world. Good strawberries, good apples, good peaches, good melons, good grapes. Walk into a grocery store in Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo, or Stockholm and you will find perfectly decent versions of these fruits. They travel well. They grow in many climates. But a good mango? That is only India. I don't mean a mango-shaped fruit. South America grows those. Florida grows those. They look like mangoes. They smell like mangoes. They are not mangoes. Technically the same category. Practically a totally different experience. The word itself tells the story. "Mango" entered English through Portuguese, who borrowed it from Tamil and Malayalam. Every language that uses this word borrowed it from India because that is where the fruit comes from. Even the scientific name, Mangifera indica, literally translates to "the plant that bears mangoes, from India." Over 1,500 varieties. Alphonso, Kesar, Banganapalli, Dasheri, Langra, Himsagar. Each one specific to a region, a soil, a microclimate. You cannot replicate that. My Dad put up a mango farm in Andhra, South India and planted Alphonso variety. Not the same as the ones from Ratnagiri in West India. There is a lot of talk about increasing mango trade from India to the US. If it materializes, the prices in India could shoot up, Don't think Indians are dying to export mangos. It is not the most predictable crop anyway.
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There’s actually a lot more to spiritual lectures than just teaching you to detest material success. A core concept of “Bhagavad Gita” is to do your duty without dwelling on the result. Follow the right teachings, and it’ll make you more ambitious, not less.
my personal take on the youth immersing themselves too much in spiritual lectures from gurus and babas is that it softens you too much, makes you less ambitious, makes you detest material success. when you’re young you should want to build things, contribute to your family and society, not think about hanging your boots to seek nirvana.
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Spurthi retweeted
Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingĂ©s (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a virĂ© le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moquĂ© pendant des annĂ©es, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le dĂ©but. Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la gĂ©omĂ©trie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collĂ©e sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule. ProblĂšme numĂ©ro un : ça rajoute une modalitĂ© dans le training du modĂšle. Ton rĂ©seau doit apprendre Ă  fusionner vision lidar radar ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de dĂ©saccord Ă  arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplĂ©mentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente. ProblĂšme numĂ©ro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalitĂ© bat systĂ©matiquement les architectures bricolĂ©es Ă  la main. Tesla a dropĂ© le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passĂ© full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accĂ©lĂ©rĂ©e APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops gĂ©ofencĂ©e. ProblĂšme numĂ©ro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la gĂ©omĂ©trie, pas la sĂ©mantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilitĂ© sont des problĂšmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus rĂ©sout rien, il ajoute du bruit. SĂ©bastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 Ă  180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zĂ©ro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'Ă©volution a donnĂ© des yeux aux prĂ©dateurs pendant 500 millions d'annĂ©es, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison. Le LIDAR c'est l'Ă©quivalent du marxisme appliquĂ© Ă  l'Ă©conomie. Une solution planifiĂ©e, centralisĂ©e, qui prĂ©tend modĂ©liser explicitement ce qui doit Ă©merger d'un systĂšme distribuĂ© et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la comprĂ©hension par de la donnĂ©e, l'Ă©mergence par le contrĂŽle. Ça rassure les ingĂ©nieurs qui veulent tout spĂ©cifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les Ă©conomistes soviĂ©tiques. Et ça Ă©choue pour les mĂȘmes raisons : la rĂ©alitĂ© est trop riche pour ĂȘtre capturĂ©e par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour ĂȘtre capturĂ©e par un plan quinquennal. La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance Ă  un systĂšme qui apprend de l'expĂ©rience plutĂŽt que de tout prĂ©-encoder. L'Ă©lĂ©gance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexitĂ©. Le LIDAR explose le dĂ©nominateur. DĂ©fendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est prĂ©fĂ©rer empiler des hacks plutĂŽt que rĂ©soudre le vrai problĂšme. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillĂ©e en rigueur d'ingĂ©nieur. Les mĂȘmes gens qui dĂ©fendaient les systĂšmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil. Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicitĂ©. Never bet against Elon.
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This looks soo good! Large touchscreens in cars suck! Give me them knobs, buttons and switches! đŸŽ›ïž
Ferrari has released a new video of the interior for its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. It was designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive, who recently said "a large touchscreen doesn't work in a car." Car info: ‱ Four-door four-seater ‱ 122 kWh battery ‱ 330 miles of range (European rating methods) ‱ 1,000 horsepower ‱ 0-60mph: Under 2.5s ‱ Four electric motors ‱ OLED screens ‱ Guess cluster screen is made up of several layers. By cutting out holes in the upper layers, Ferrari created displays where the speedometer graphic is below the level of a physical needle, which is itself behind additional drive info and beneath a curved inset lens. ‱ Will have fake gear shifts ‱ Weight: 5,100 lbs
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The best thing about Bangalore is that you don't need an O1 visa to be there.
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“Deep” tech is literally written in his name! 😊 Amazing to see that the simulations matched the real flight data so closely! Onwards and upwards! 🚀
We just completed a successful flight for our tech demonstrator, Lat One v0.2. Lat Aerospace is building ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft using blown wing technology. Think fixed-wing performance with near-helicopter access. A couple of months ago, v0.1 achieved uSTOL but crashed shortly after. That was expected. v0.2 was about completing the full mission, and it did. The blown wing concept worked in reality. Closed-loop control got validated. We'd predicted a cruise speed of 30-32 m/s and cruised comfortably at 33. No thermal issues despite a burning afternoon. The quick-detach wings held through aggressive turns. Was in the air for over 6 minutes. Smooth touchdown, and ready to fly again. But the thing that makes me the happiest isn't any of that. It's that our CFD studies, aerodynamic models, SIL simulations, and flight logs all match, almost perfectly. That's what real engineering looks like. I am so proud of our team. A long way to go, and we are getting there. @lataerospace @surobhidas
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Best part about building at home! đŸ«¶
behind the scenes đŸ«¶đŸ»
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